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What Matters Most On Friday, June 28, 2024

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This combination of photos shows Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a presidential debate hosted by CNN, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Biden seems to lose train of thought, often corrects himself

Trump calls Biden ‘a bad Palestinian’ as president’s halting debate showing rattles Dems

By JTA, Jacob Magid and Agencies

After US leader says Netanyahu backs ceasefire proposal laid out last month, predecessor claims Israel wants to continue the war and that it should be allowed to ‘finish the job’

This combination of photos shows Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a presidential debate hosted by CNN, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 28: Day 266 — Biden, Trump face off and Gallant’s effective US visit

US President Joe Biden speaks as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

NYT's Friedman says 'my friend must bow out of the race'

Biden’s dire debate performance has Democrats panicking over his ability to beat Trump

Some propose president be replaced at party’s convention, casting his stumbling, sometimes incoherent showing as a ‘disaster’; VP admits ‘slow start,’ argues record more important

Former US president Donald Trump (L) debates President Joe Biden (R) ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, June 27, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Animus and incoherence: Five takeaways from the Biden-Trump debate

By AFP

Moderators Jake Tapper (right) and Dana Bash during a commercial break of the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University, January 10, 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Who are Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, the Jewish moderators of the Biden-Trump debate?

Peace group says 'crazy' decision will harm security

Security cabinet okays legalizing 5 outposts, sanctioning PA officials

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Smotrich will in turn release PA tax funds, extend waiver to let Palestinian banks work with Israel; steps include Israeli building enforcement in Area B, which would violate Oslo deal

File: A sign pointing to the Evyatar outpost, in the West Bank, June 22, 2023. (Flash90)

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein (left) seen after a court hearing at Jerusalem District Court, on January 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Daniella Weiss takes part in a march to the Evyatar outspot, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Canada sanctions Israeli extremists, settler groups over violence against Palestinians

By Lazar Berman

A smoke plume billows during Israeli bombardment of the village of Khiam in south Lebanon near the border with Israel on June 26, 2024. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 28: US shifts assault ship to Mediterranean Sea to deter Israel-Hezbollah war

By Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner

IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon following series of attacks on north * Biden campaign: Cold, sore throat aren’t excuses for US president’s debate performance last night

7:52 pm

Hezbollah claims responsibility for night's rocket, drone attacks on northern Israel
7:43 pm

Yemen's Houthis say they targeted four vessels in Red Sea and Mediterranean
7:34 pm

Biden campaign: Cold, sore throat aren't excuses for president's debate performance last night

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon in Washington, June 25, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Report: US set to release some bombs, withhold others amid Biden’s anger at Netanyahu

500-lb bombs will be sent to Israel after Rafah op ends, Axios says, but issue of 2000-lb payloads unresolved, with US officials saying president ‘not taking orders from Netanyahu’

US Air Force members transfer cargo to the IDF at the Nevatim Air Base on October 15, 2023. (Edgar Grimaldo/US Air Force)

US weapons shipments to Israel dropped significantly 4 months into war, figures show

Interview

Visiting US Senator Fetterman: No to any deal that leaves Hamas in power

Outspoken pro-Israel Democrat says during his first trip to Israel that Biden should not have withheld bombs; backs Netanyahu address to Congress

US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks in Jerusalem, June 27, 2024 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

A Palestinian man reacts as he says goodbye to his sick daughter before leaving the Gaza Strip to get treatment abroad through the Kerem Shalom crossing, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In 1st since closing of Rafah crossing, Gaza children evacuated for medical treatment

By AP and ToI Staff

Participants at the Nova Healing Concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. This was the first Tribe of Nova mass gathering since the Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border attack by Hamas terrorists who killed hundreds at the Nova music festival and kidnapped others to Gaza. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

'I wanted to be with people who also went through this'

Survivors of Hamas massacre at Nova music festival unite to build a healing community

By Melanie Lidman

Tribe of Nova took shape as a robust support network for those who lived through the Hamas slaughter of 364 at the October 7 festival; it just held its first mass gathering

I have hope for ‘the day after’

Here’s why the Arab Spring didn’t yield democracies all over the region, why rehabilitating Germany and Japan worked, and why Gaza may yet be transformed

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Should Biden let Hezbollah and the Houthis get a say in Gaza?

The US administration’s ’no war whatsoever’ policy signals to Iran that America is toothless and that the Islamic Republic can act with impunity

Sgt. Eyal Shynes (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF infantryman killed in southern Gaza, bringing ground op toll to 316

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Eyal Shynes, 19, killed in Hamas sniper attack in Rafah; army says it struck terrorists hiding in schools, humanitarian zone

A man pushes a wheelchair loaded with items while evacuating with others from the Tuffah neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City on June 27, 2024 (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

IDF tanks said advancing into Gaza’s Shejaiya amid strikes on the neighborhood

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hezbollah shells north with 40 rockets after operative killed in IDF drone strike

By Emanuel Fabian

US intel reportedly expects war in north in next few weeks if Gaza ceasefire not reached; no injuries in terror group’s attacks

Rockets intercepted over the northern city of Safed, June 27, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar speaks at a graduation ceremony for pilots, June 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Air force chief says IDF ready to face Hezbollah in north, Hamas nearly defeated in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Destroyed houses in Khiam, a town near the Lebanese-Israeli border, that was hit by Israeli air strikes on Friday June 21, seen from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Saturday, June 22, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Israel strikes reportedly creating 5-kilometer ‘dead zone’ in southern Lebanon

Protesters in Jerusalem, Caesarea urge Netanyahu ouster, demand hostage deal

Demonstrators set fire, try to break through barricade near premier’s Jerusalem home, but no arrests reported and water cannons not used; Likud says incitement ‘crossed red line’

Einav Zangauker clutches a picture of her son, hostage Matan Zangauker, at an anti-government, pro-hostage deal rally on Jerusalem's Azza Street near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence, June 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Iran’s leaders mulling nuclear weapons, NYT says, citing Iranian officials

Report says Iran has ‘cemented its role as a threshold nuclear state’, and US officials divided on whether it will take the ‘final step’

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, via AP, File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks with a visiting delegation of US former generals and admirals, Jerusalem, June 27, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

PM warns visiting former US officers Iran seeks to conquer Jordan, Saudi Arabia

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)

US places new sanctions on Iran following nuclear escalations

By Daphne Psaledakis

Iranian presidential candidate and reformist Massoud Pezeshkian reacts to the crowd outside a polling station where he cast his vote in the presidential election in Tehran on June 28, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s sole reformist candidate wants warm ties ‘with all countries except Israel’

By AP and ToI Staff

Masoud Pezeshkian decries ‘inhuman or invasive behavior’ against women, in response to question over crackdown during 2022 Mahsa Amini protests

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot during the presidential election, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Weary Iranians head to polls to replace president killed in chopper crash

People walk past an installation depicting a replica of a ballot box along a street in Tehran on June 26, 2024. (Raheb Homavandi / AFP)

Iranians set to vote for new president with sole reformist on ballot

By Ramin Khanizadeh and Ahmad Parhizi

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (center), announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, May 20, 2024. (ICC)

Britain challenges ICC’s jurisdiction over Israel, delaying arrest warrant decision

By Jeremy Sharon, Reuters and ToI Staff

UK files amicus brief contesting the ICC’s 2021 decision asserting jurisdiction over Israeli actions in Palestinian territories; potential moves against Netanyahu, Gallant delayed

Supporters of Israel clash with anti-Israel protesters blocking access to the Adas Torah Orthodox Jewish synagogue, in Los Angeles, June 23, 2024. (DAVID SWANSON / AFP)

FBI investigating violence outside LA synagogue, as mayor considers mask ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is Jewish, cites family history in emotional press briefing, tells reporters Justice Department will not tolerate antisemitic hate crimes

Maintenance staff and waste disposal crews clean up after police cleared a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest encampment on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 10, 2024. (Matthew Hatcher / AFP)

Pennsylvania Senate advances bill to bar funding for schools that divest from Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The rebellion from within Likud

ToI’s senior analyst discusses the ruling party’s paralysis in the current coalition even as a new ‘fantasy’ right-wing team rises in the polls

Illustrative image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters after the first exit poll results for the Israeli parliamentary elections at his Likud party's headquarters in Jerusalem, March. 24, 2021. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Police officers disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a highway during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Ultra-Orthodox block main road for hours in draft protest; 32 arrested

West Nile disease is spread by birds and transmitted to animals and humans by mosquito bites. (CC-BY 2.0 hofluk, Flickr)

Health Ministry says 81 diagnosed with West Nile fever, 7 have died in outbreak

By Diana Bletter

64 hospitalized with virus, six of whom are on ventilators; 20% experiencing symptoms including fever, headaches and body aches; only 1% have neurological issues

Illustrative: Residential buildings in the Ha'agamim neighborhood in the coastal city of Netanya, on January 14, 2024. (Shahar Yaari/ Flash90)

Real Estate Israel

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in June 2024

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Times of Israel’s regular feature on what is happening in the local property market right now

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State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

State comptroller warns there’s no evacuation plan for North in case of war

File: A Patriot battery is seen stationed in northern Israel, August 2, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

US and Israel in talks to send Patriot systems to Ukraine — report

Fake pill bottles with messages about OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, NY, on Aug. 9, 2021. (AP/Seth Wenig)

US Supreme Court blocks OxyContin bankruptcy deal that would shield Sacklers

By Mark Sherman

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, center, and Brothers of Italy fellow party members and candidates wave from the stage during an electoral rally ahead of the EU parliamentary elections in Rome, June 1, 2024. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Rome Jews outraged as footage shows antisemitism in youth movement of Meloni’s party

By Angelo Amante

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, who is under investigation for incitement. (AP/Joao Silva)

Al-Aqsa imam indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism

By AFP

Officers stand near the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, January 31, 2024. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Swedish court indicts teen for going to Israeli embassy with semi-automatic weapon

By AFP

Musicians Avi Vaknin (left), Lir Hovoteli, Ori Ronen and Mati Ooliel at Jerusalem's Hamifletzet Pub on June 27, 2024 (Courtesy)

Southern comfortArtists from south pine for home in Jerusalem performance

By Jessica Steinberg

Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman talks with the media at his campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP/Eric Gay)

ObituaryJewish country musician, satirist and provocateur Kinky Friedman dies at 79

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